Ruby’s Mom (she/her)
@farmbabe2.bsky.social
Rural progressive & romcommunist. Fond of books, British detective shows & bodily autonomy.
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
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There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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“It’s classic, textbook propaganda.”
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“It’s classic, textbook propaganda.”
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Here’s a hot take: I don’t want to see lawmakers posting holiday pictures from their mansions — I don’t care which party.
Keep that shit to yourself.
Keep that shit to yourself.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here’s a hot take: I don’t want to see lawmakers posting holiday pictures from their mansions — I don’t care which party.
Keep that shit to yourself.
Keep that shit to yourself.
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Families of Mexico's disappeared gathered at a cathedral near Mexico City to craft Christmas ornaments bearing the faces of their missing loved ones.
A Christmas tree in Mexico carries the faces of loved ones who never came home
Families of Mexico’s disappeared gathered at a cathedral near Mexico City to craft Christmas ornaments bearing the faces of their missing loved ones.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Families of Mexico's disappeared gathered at a cathedral near Mexico City to craft Christmas ornaments bearing the faces of their missing loved ones.
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Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...
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Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
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Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
My House Rep is stunningly out of touch.
Vote for @bhennrich.bsky.social in 2026!
Vote for @bhennrich.bsky.social in 2026!
In Southwest Washington we love our trees, in particular our Bigleaf Maples. So, this Thanksgiving season I’m so thankful for everyone who spent time out in the woods to look for the biggest Bigleaf Maple leaf!
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
My House Rep is stunningly out of touch.
Vote for @bhennrich.bsky.social in 2026!
Vote for @bhennrich.bsky.social in 2026!
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Narcissists are all the same, they can’t see past their own eyelashes. It’s always someone else. Go daughters, hold the line!!! Consequences suck, PDX #FAFO
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Narcissists are all the same, they can’t see past their own eyelashes. It’s always someone else. Go daughters, hold the line!!! Consequences suck, PDX #FAFO
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Why do none of the male reporters ever speak up in support?? Cowards all.
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Why do none of the male reporters ever speak up in support?? Cowards all.
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Starbucks baristas are on strike and the No Kings Alliance stands with them. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers fight for fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting: nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Starbucks baristas are on strike and the No Kings Alliance stands with them. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers fight for fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting: nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge
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We're not shopping at Target, Home Depot, or Amazon this Thanksgiving weekend 🚫. We're so over corporations that back the admins policies, cave to anti-DEI pressure, let ICE terrorize our communities, and chase tax breaks while people go hungry. #WeAintBuyingIt
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We're not shopping at Target, Home Depot, or Amazon this Thanksgiving weekend 🚫. We're so over corporations that back the admins policies, cave to anti-DEI pressure, let ICE terrorize our communities, and chase tax breaks while people go hungry. #WeAintBuyingIt
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The same moral cowards that made up lies about immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs are going full tilt towards exploiting a tragedy to attack immigrants from Afghanistan. They are as uncreative as they are unpatriotic.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The same moral cowards that made up lies about immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs are going full tilt towards exploiting a tragedy to attack immigrants from Afghanistan. They are as uncreative as they are unpatriotic.
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Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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This is a mindset that doesn't believe in America and views the country as a feeble nation whose meager riches need to be hoarded by an elite rather than a robust state that inculcates civic participation and obligation. It's the mindset of failsons and con artists and real patriots should reject it
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is a mindset that doesn't believe in America and views the country as a feeble nation whose meager riches need to be hoarded by an elite rather than a robust state that inculcates civic participation and obligation. It's the mindset of failsons and con artists and real patriots should reject it
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Nativists have the same personality complex as Men's Rights dorks. They are convinced that they have no inherent value and make it everyone else's problem rather than just working to improve themselves
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Nativists have the same personality complex as Men's Rights dorks. They are convinced that they have no inherent value and make it everyone else's problem rather than just working to improve themselves
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again.
With @startribune.com
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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again.
With @startribune.com
With @startribune.com